NBC has delayed work on a spinoff of The Office in favour of another comedy project with Saturday Night Live star Amy Poehler.

Executive producers Greg Daniels and Michael Schur are focusing on the new show with a view to it airing next year. Previously they were considering making Poehler the star of the Office spinoff.

"They came up with two ideas," NBC co-chairman Ben Silverman said on Monday. "One which is totally a spinoff, which they're pursuing and will be planted inside The Office and maybe would involve characters already on [the show].

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"And then they developed a different concept in parallel which was set stylistically and formed by The Office, but not characters or storylines based on The Office."